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“The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.”

Life Book Reason School Sides Impression Chiefs Fixed School Life

Book:The Collected Prose of Robert Frost

Source: The Collected Prose of Robert Frost

“Jesus conveyed the impression of complete love, compassion, kindness, and infinite patience.”

Christian Jesus Christ Compassion Kindness Jesus Christ Infinite Impression

Book:To Heaven and Back: A Doctor's Extraordinary Account of Her Death, Heaven, Angels, and Life Again: A True Story

Source: To Heaven and Back: A Doctor's Extraordinary Account of Her Death, Heaven, Angels, and Life Again: A True Story

“If you start picking up other people's impressions while you are meditating, then instead of clearing yourself, you are just going to completely glom yourself up to the point where there is no meditation.”

People Ifs Meditation Impression Meditating Clearing

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Only when there are no impressions of others clouding our mind, can we sit and practice the glorious practice of meditation.”

Mind Practice Meditation Impression Glorious

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Two erroneous impressions ... seem to be current among certain groups of uninformed persons. The first is that religion today stands for mediaeval theology; the second that science is materialistic and irreligious.”

Firsts Persons Two Seems Today Science Certain Groups Errors Currents Impression Theology Materialistic Uninformed Religion Today

Author:Robert Andrews Millikan

“I can be seen as not being very communicative, or rather mysterious, or distant, or rather cold - all those things. Yeah, I know I can give off that impression. So I am that, too.”

Knows Giving I Can Cold Yeah Impression Mysterious

Author:Charlotte Rampling

“Perhaps it is not without reason that we attribute facility in belief and conviction to simplicity and ignorance; for it seems to me I once learned that belief was sort of an impression made on our mind, and that the softer it is the less resistant t.”

Mind Made Reason Seems Belief Ignorance Simplicity Conviction Impression Attributes Facility

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“The sense impressions of one-celled animals are not edited for the brain. This is philosophically interesting in a rather mournful way, since it means that only the simplest animals perceive the universe as it is.”

Way Mean Universe Animal Interesting Brain Impression Perceive Simplest Edited

Book:PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK

Source: PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK

“Personality in man is what is "not his own" . . . what come from outside, what he has learned, or reflects, all traces of exterior impressions left in the memory.”

Men Left Memories Personality Impression Exterior

Author:G. I. Gurdjieff

“Childhood is not only the childhood we really had but also the impressions we formed of it in our adolescence and maturity. That is why childhood seems so long. Probably every period of life is multiplied by our reflections upon the next.”

Long Seems Life Is Next Childhood Periods Reflection Impression Maturity Adolescence

Author:Cesare Pavese

“Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.”

Mind Criticism Critics Critical Impression Entitled Essays Recluse

Book:Margaret Fuller: Essays on American Life and Letters

Source: Margaret Fuller: Essays on American Life and Letters

“When the weak want to give an impression of strength they hint menacingly at their capacity for evil. It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.”

Want Giving Evil Promise Capacity Weak Impression Hints

Author:Eric Hoffer

“The impression somehow prevails that the true believer, particularly the religious individual, is a humble person. The truth is that the surrendering and humbling of the self breeds pride and arrogance.”

Persons Self Individual Religious Pride Truth Is Humble Believer Impression Arrogance Humbling Meekness True Believer Salt Of The Earth Humble Person Pride And Arrogance

Book:THE TRUE BELIEVER

Source: THE TRUE BELIEVER

“Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know. One often obtains a clue to a person's nature by discovering the reasons for his or her imperviousness to certain impressions.”

Knows Want Persons Reason Certain Impression Crucial Discovering Clue

Book:The Passionate State of Mind

Source: The Passionate State of Mind

“The word is a sign or symbol of the impressions or affections of the soul.”

Soul Affection Impression Symbols

Author:Aristotle

“Be eager to lend a patient ear to the opinions of others and think long and hard whether whoever finds fault has reason or not to censure you. And if the answer is yes, correct the fault. If no, give the impression that you have not heard him, or if he is a man whom you respect, explain to him why he is mistaken.”

Ifs Thinking Men Giving Long Hard Reason Answers Opinion Heard Ears Faults Critics Patient Impression Mistaken Censure

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“When I got to the hospice I was under the impression it would be a two- or three-week stay. But here I still am, six weeks later, and I've gotten so well Medicare won't pay for me anymore.”

Wells Stills Two Would Be Three Pay Week Health Six Impression Medicare Hospice

Author:Art Buchwald

“It is not only old and early impressions that deceive us; the charms of novelty have the same power.”

Impression Deception Charm Deceiving Novelty

Book:Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects

Source: Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects

“Phases of the creative process: Preparation-gathering impressions Incubation-letting go of certainties Immersion/Illumination-creative intervention/risk Revision-conscious structuring and editing of creative material.”

“One must learn an inner solitude, where or with whomsoever he may be. He must learn to penetrate things and find God there, to get a strong impression of God firmly fixed on his mind.”

Mind May Strong Solitude Impression Fixed Penetrate

Book:Celebrated 14th Century Mystic and Scholastic Meister Eckhart

Source: Celebrated 14th Century Mystic and Scholastic Meister Eckhart

“Some people are under the impression that all that is required to make a good fisherman is the ability to tell lies easily and without blushing; but this is a mistake.”

People Lying Ability Mistake Impression Fisherman Blushing

Book:Jerome K. Jerome: 14 Books in 1

Source: Jerome K. Jerome: 14 Books in 1

“Art' is the same word as 'artifice,' that is to say, something deceitful. It must succeed in giving the impression of nature by false means.”

Giving Mean Art Succeed Art Is Impression Deception Artifice Deceitful

Author:Edgar Degas

“But when reflexion begins to play upon these objects... like some trick of magic each object is loosed into a group of impressions - colour, odour, texture... And if we continue to dwell in thought on this world... the whole scope of observation is dwarfed into the narrow chamber of the individual mind.”

Ifs World Mind Play Whole Individual Magic Groups Objects This World Tricks Impression Observation Colour Scope Chamber Texture Impressionism

Author:Walter Pater

“Do not finish your work too much. An impression is not sufficiently durable for its first freshness to survive a belated search for infinite detail; in this way you let the lava grow cool.”

Way Firsts Grows Too Much Infinite Details Impression Finishing Freshness Lava Belated

Book:Gauguin's Intimate Journals

Source: Gauguin's Intimate Journals

“A good impression is lost so quickly.”

Lost Impression Impressionism

Book:Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

Source: Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

“If the artist succeeds in producing the impression of a movement which takes several moments for accomplishment, his work is certainly much less conventional than the scientific image, where time is abruptly suspended.”

Ifs Moments Artist Movement Succeed Impression Accomplishment Conventional Suspended

Book:Rodin on Art and Artists: Conversations with Paul Gsell

Source: Rodin on Art and Artists: Conversations with Paul Gsell

“We should see the desire for neatness, the desire for sharp impressions, as a desire in art.”

Should Art Desire Impression Neatness

Author:Eli Siegel

“There is such a thing as the impression of luminosity.”

Light Impression

Book:Remarks on Colour/Bemerkungen Uber Die Farben

Source: Remarks on Colour/Bemerkungen Uber Die Farben

“Apparently one impression we are making... is that creativeness consists of lightning striking you on the head in one great glorious moment.”

Moments Creativity Impression Glorious Lightning Creativeness

Author:Abraham Maslow

“An optical impression is produced on our organs of sight which makes us classify as light, half-tone or quartertone, the surfaces represented by colour sensations. So that light does not exist for the painter.”

Doe Light Half Sight Surface Impression Painter Tone Colour Sensations Organs

Author:Paul Cezanne

“By using patches of color and tone it is possible to capture every natural impression in the simplest way, freshly and immediately.”

Way Natural Color Simplicity Impression Tone Capture Simplest Patches

Book:The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918

Source: The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918

“Let me recommend to you not to have too great dependence on your practice or memory, however strong those impressions may have been which are there deposited. They are forever wearing out, and will be at least obliterated, unless they are continually refreshed and repaired.”

May Has Beens Strong Memories Practice Forever Let Me Impression Dependence

Author:Joshua Reynolds

“The great end of all arts is to make an impression on the imagination and the feeling. The imitation of nature frequently does this. Sometimes it fails and something else succeeds.”

Doe Art Ends Sometimes Feelings Purpose Imagination Failing Succeed Art Is Impression Imitation

Book:The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting; to which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author by Edward Malone

Source: The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting; to which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author by Edward Malone

“The living model never answers well the idea or impressions the painter wishes to express; one must, therefore, learn to do without one, and for that, you must acquire facility, furnish one's memory to the point of infinitude, and make numerous drawings after the old masters.”

Wells Ideas Wish Memories Answers Masters Models Drawing Impression Painter Acquire Facility

Author:Eugene Delacroix

“At a distance this fine oak seems to be of ordinary size. But if I place myself under its branches, the impression changes completely: I see it as big, and even terrifying in its bigness.”

Ifs Bigs Seems Perspective Fine Ordinary Distance Size Impression Branches Oaks

Author:Eugene Delacroix

“Set up your study or picture in an orderly fashion. This order should not cramp either the linearist or the colorist... Never lose sight of that first impression by which you were moved.”

Should Firsts Order Loses Study Fashion Sight Moved Impression Orderly First Impression Cramps

Author:Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

“Compare constantly, lines and angles... Hold looking-glass before your model and your drawing. Take a second's glance only, and see if the impression be the same. If it be not, ask, 'What is the difference?”

Ifs Asks Differences Lines Models Glasses Drawing Impression Compare Angle Glances

Book:William Morris Hunt on painting and drawing

Source: William Morris Hunt on painting and drawing

“There is force and vitality in a first sketch from life which the after-work rarely has... In your sketches keep the first vivid impression! Add no details that shall weaken it! Look first for the big things! 1st. Proportions! 2nd. Values - or masses of light and shade. 3rd. Details that will not spoil the beginnings!”

Firsts Looks Bigs Light Values Force Strength Mass Add Details Impression Proportion Shade Big Things Vitality Vivid Spoil

Author:William Morris Hunt

“What I am after is the first impression - I want to show all one sees on first entering the room - what my eye takes in at first glance.”

Want Firsts Shows Eye Rooms Impression Glances Entering First Impression Impressionism

Author:Pierre Bonnard

“The word "art" means harmony for me. I never speak of mathematics and never bother with the Spirit. My only science is the choice of impressions that the light in the universe furnishes to my consciousness as an artisan which I try, by imposing an Order, and Art, an appropriate representative life, to organize.”

Trying Mean Art Light Spirit Order Choices Universe Speak Consciousness Harmony Mathematics Impression Bother Appropriate Representatives Organize Imposing Artisans

Author:Robert Delaunay

“Emotion that I experienced on first seeing the fresh paint come out of the tube.. ..the impression of colours strewn over the palette: of colours - alive, waiting, as yet unseen and hidden in their little tubes...”

Firsts Littles Waiting Emotion Alive Seeing Experience Paint Impression Colour Unseen Tubes Palette

Author:Wassily Kandinsky

“I made the flames lick the surface of the painting in such a way that is recorded the spontaneous traces of the fire. But what is it that provokes in me this pursuit of the impression of fire? Why must I search for its traces?”

Way Made Fire Painting Surface Pursuit Impression Burning Flames Provoking Spontaneous

Author:Yves Klein

“The painter doesn't try to reproduce the scene before him... he simplifies and eliminates until he knows exactly what stirred him, sets this down in color and line as simply and as powerfully as possible and so translates his impression into an aesthetic emotion.”

Knows Trying Lines Emotion Color Scene Impression Painter Aesthetic Translate Simplify

Author:David Milne

“You want to make an impression. Being clever helps.”

Want Helping Clever Impression Cleverness

Author:Leonard Maltin

“I don't mean to sugarcoat the figure on restatements, but I think it is positive - it shows a healthy system. The general impression of the public is that accounting rules are black and white. They are often anything but that, and in many instances the changes in earnings came after new interpretations by the chief accountant of the SEC.”

Thinking Mean Shows Black White Figures Healthy Impression Instance Chiefs Interpretation Black And White Earning Accounting Accountants

Author:Steve Odland

“Well my own impression of my musical pieces is that no matter how long I've been at it, there's not much improvement. So that's kind of regrettable.”

Wells Kind Long Matter My Own Pieces Regret Musical Improvement Impression

Author:Nobuo Uematsu

“Realize the value of putting down your first impression quickly.”

Firsts Values Realizing Impression First Impression Impressionism

Book:Charles Webster Hawthorne

Source: Charles Webster Hawthorne

“Pseudo-critics prefer to direct their remarks to the artist - Heaven forgive them - but one due rather to a common impression that such an attitude is the correct one, that all paintings should be figuratively mutilated, and that all artists are fair game, or really grateful perhaps for a few tips.”

Should Artist Games Heaven Common Attitude Painting Fairs Direct Grateful Forgiving Critics Dues Impression Remarks Pseudo Fair Game

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“The impression of wood-grain... must be considered, not only as regards texture and visibility, but for the occasional possibility of the expression of form. A soft wood, with hard annulations, such as fir, prints very dearly.”

Hard Form Possibility Expression Regard Woods Impression Print Grain Occasional Texture Visibility

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“You see, my good friend, how much we are the creatures of situation and circumstance, and with what pliant servility the mind resigns itself to the impressions of the senses, or the illusions of the imagination”

Mind Imagination Situation Circumstances Creatures Illusion Senses Impression Good Friend Servility

Book:The wild Irish girl: a national tale

Source: The wild Irish girl: a national tale